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John Gribhin & Cos.
have received
The following GOODS,
I'rom on Ijoartl Manchester Packet, from
Ncw-Yotk, winch will he disposed of for rash,
cotton, or approved paper,on reaaonablc lei ms,
at the store lately occupied by John Hilton :
15 pipes Cogmac h andy
12 hhds. Northward rum
8 pipes I lolland gin
10 do. country do.
10 quarter casks Sherry wine
H hhds. Musqpvado sugar
l do. loaf do.
1 do. lump do.
1 4 chests Hyson lea
2 do. young do.
3') cam listers imperial tea
5;) do. gunpowder, for family use
40 boxes Doolittle’s soap
10 do. do. candles
15 do. English mustard
20 do. ncgio pipes
Russia,Swedes and country iron
Germa, blister and Ciawley’s sieci
100 Shat-Moulds
t hale ruse blai ike's > f to 12-4
*> r[o. Vsmrinn HsiHil
2 t:o. negro cloths.
4 do. hunihums
1 do. superior quality
■i do. great coals, well assorted
2 boxes Irish linens.
November 10 125
REMOVAL.
GI'.OUC.i: IiUC 11 AN AN & CO.
HAVE REMOVED TO THE STORE
Adjoining JVl’Luxl’s \ endue-Room,
Is EAR THE MARKET SQUARE,
Where they continue selling
Their STOCK of GOODS,
At Cost and Charges.
November 19 129
Hugh Koss,
continues to transact
Factorage 6c Comniusio i business,
on Messrs. Mini & Bouxvck's wharf. He ban for
fj , a f..w lulibul Me dl PLAINS, and a quantity of
Weeding lloes.
November 10 t 125
Johti S. Mitchell,
Jttt/iccrfuihj inform* hi* f iend* and the /niblic
of hi* commencement in the
COMMISSION BUSINESS,
in whto i line, he will, at all time:,, thanklm y re.
rent*, and pun.'tuall) execute, their commands H.
lias peaed hit C unting Houle on Mr. James John
it,m, ju.u r's wharf
( ift bet 6 AL no
Thomas Storr,
11 \VIN<T taken part of the {lores occupied hy
J.\Mr Johniton jun. e.q. begs leave to tender his
unices to huhitnat and tl.e public, as a
1 actor & k Dinnn >siou Merchant.
Should ho he entrufFd with tlie ‘ifpnf.il of any part of
th* ; r Ciopn.hefla ters himlelf hy his affuluity and un
r, uittt'd attention to their ‘nterclU, to merit a continu
ation of their Uvors. October 1 ‘OS
Commission & Factorage
BUSINESS.
THF. fubferibrr having large and convenient Stores,
in the wharf adjoining Jame Wabace, efq offers his
f 1 vices to hit IrU-nds and the public, at a COMMIS
SION MERCH VNT and FACTOR.
Thomas Lawrence.
October H... 111
Received bv late Arrivals.
50 hhds. N. K. Rum
30 bids. No. 1 anil 2 Reef
30 bbls. No. 1 and 2 Pui k
30 bags piime Coffee
70 bbls. fresh inspected Muckarel
For Sat: bj
S. C. Howard.
November Id—i.—l 27.
JUST RECEIVED,
1 cr schooner Three Friends, from Boflon,
f en thesis and one hundred and twenty boxes
First quality Hyson Tea,
Warranted to he all of this vein’s importation,
a'id entitled to benefit of drawback, for sale by
Smith !k Bourke.
October SI —1?1
FOR SALE.
“I hat healthy and pleasant situation, in the
•mv i of Sparta, well known as the residence of
Dr. P. VV. liossi rt—consisting of NINE
D ) 16 OF LAND, a cinvnodiour. Dwelling
H ise.one and an h i'fst r'esh gh—a Iso, a Store
f 1 vise, of tin same he ylu—a kitchen. Smoke-
H aso and other necessirv out houses, \mong
be many com enienccs arc a Well of excellent
” .ter, and a number of Fruit Trees. The
Shore will dc disp'sc l of w moderate terms.
• tlie subscriber intends moving to li s planta
t> n mi the be'crrtatn, where Hines llolt for-
S'crly resided. For further particulars apply to
Timo. \V. Ros&etcr.
!No'-futbcrJ4— -IJI m
MEMORIAL.
The following memorial has been presented
to congress :
7b the honorable the Senate and Home of Refire
rental ivet of the United Statea, in Congress as
sembled.
Since the adjournment of the first session of
the Ninth Congress, 1 have received, at differ
ent times, communications from Hamet Cara
nielli, ex-bushawof Tripoli, stating his distress
ed situation, and imploring relief from the be
neficence of the United States ; which commu
nications have been transmitted to tbe proper
department. I have the honor to offer, for the
consideration of congress, a translated copy of
the lasi address, fromfthe original, in Italian, is
in the office of the department of state) which
is evidently intended for the representatives
of the people of the United States, and is as
follows :
To their most Serene Highnesses.
In the depth of my misery, my only consola
tion has been the reliance I placed on the pow
erful support of a republic so distinguished
throtu.’ hoin •!’“ ---IJ. c.u iS.u justice which
prt tcc.is and sustains whoever confides himself
to her patronage. This credulity resigned me
wholly to her discretion. But I could never
have thought that this my confidence should
work tail my individual destruction. I havesa
ciificed all my means, and exposed my life in
the service of the United Mates. It was im
possible for me to expect, by way of reconi- |
pense, an exilement in Syracuse ; far from my :
family, and deprived of every convenience of;
life. I hoped to be recompensed by an equiva- ■
lent to mv usefulness and to my sacrifices. |
The promises made to me admitted no suspi
cion that so much time should be elapsed, and
that hope not yet realized ; or that I should
not have yet found repose. Public ships of war ,
have repeatedly returned hither, which had
been bearers of my commit.lications. Seeing
myself nevertheless unnoticed, I suspect my
letters have been miscarried ; foi it is
ble to persuade me, my ciicumstances and
wants being known to ‘hem, that the United
States would abandon me.
My situation does not enable me to under
take a long voyage for the purpose of making
a peisonal rcpiesentation of my deplorable con
dition. 1 hope ijic exalted republic will not re
quite this of me,in order to awaken their feel
ings to my just expressions of solicitude and
concern for myself: it would be unjust to ne
glect my complaints—and severely felt bv
tbos’ - who occasion them.
I have lost my family—l have lost my inhe
ritance—my acquisitions, and my fair pros
pects, are lost also ! I have indeed sacrificed
tnv claim to the confidence ol a faithful ally,*
whom I abandoned through my partiality to the
Americans. I had no right to apprehend that
mv devotion and complacency would overwhelm 1
u e in bottomless ruin.
To my own individual sufferings, I ought to
annex also those of my faithful people, whose j
attachment to me lias involved them in the j
same wretchedness ; who suffer with me the
same sequestration from their country, from
their families, and from their property ; all
which they have left, through v iolation of those 1
whose duty it was to sustain them.
I will in t. like the world, reproach there-’
presentatives of the American nation wi h in
gratitude. I rather implore their commissera
tion towards me ; at least so far as to restore j
to me my family, and to grant me a compe
tence. j
It is vei possible that, absent from my own !
country, 1 may become serviceable to the Unit
ed Stales. My former subjects are ever ready
to devote their lives to my service : mine, with
their’s, I will hold ever ready to devote to that of
the exalted republic.
And am, for ever, most Serene Highnesses,
(Seal) Hamet Bashaw Caramelli,
Son of .v li Bashaw, Sec. Sec. See.
Syracuse, 187i February, 1807.
Some expect; tions have been lately enter
tained by our government, ironi the -eptesen
talions of Consul Davis, teat provisions would
be made by the ruling Bashaw of Tripoli iurthe
subsistence of his exiled brother.’ But upon
information diicctly from Syracuse, by Ueorgc
Dyson. Esq. navy agent of the United Stales,
now in this city it is rendered certain, that no
relief can be relied on from that quarter; and
ftrobahlr, that whatever encouragement of this
nature had been held out by the usurper, it had
no other object than to betray his brother to
destruction.
Hating had myself the chief influence, as an
agent of the United States, in ch awing the ex
bashaw fmm his situation in Upper Egypt; and
having, in conformity to treaty arrangements,
been instrumental in reconciling him to the un
paralleled reverse of abandoning his flattering
prospects ; of relinquishing for ever his hopes
of recovering the kingdom, wrested from him
by treason, and now apparently in his grasp;
and of receding from victory, like a prisoner,
to a land ot strangers. Hating effected this
by the assurances, which I was authorised to
make to him, that his wife and family should
lie restored to him, and that a manly respect
to his future well-being would be had by out
country, it may not lie deemed inconsistent with
the dictates of commiseration towards the sup
plicant, nor with my duties of respect towards
the honorable body, to whom his supplications
are addressed, if I indulge a remark on the oc
casion.
It is remarkable, for it is an incontestible
* Elsi Bey
truth, that whether the claims of the ex-badiaw
go to th e, justice or the generosity of the United
States, the use which was made of his services,
contributed much, if not wholly influenced, the
overtures of peace on the part of the ruling
bashaw; for it was negociated at a time when
no coercion of our squadron, then in the Medi
terranean, had as yet been attempted to be tried
upon him, and when the infirmities of commo
dore Barron placed such an experiment at an
incalculable distance. That no serious impres
sions had, from any quai ter, been made on the
apprehensions of the enemy, after the transfer
of the squadron from commodore Preble to
commodore Barron, except what were impress
ed by tbe capture and subjugation of his east
ern province, the internal revolution of his king
dom, and the annihilation of his armv through
the influence and co-operation of Hamet Bashaw.
That the United States alone enjoy tire advan
tages resulting from those events, while the ex
bashaw, as he has truly represented, leaps no
other benefit from his confidence and exertions
than privation and exile, but a little better than
capti, ity.
It cannot be contested that Hamet Bashaw
has two fair claims on this nation— To be re-in
stated in a situation as eligible as that from which
hr hus oetu urawn — aim to nuue ru yumtay re
stored to him. The former, guaranteed by hon
orable promises ; the latter, by the solemnity
of treaty stipulation—and, it is firmly believed,
the people of the United States are liberally dis
posed to see these obligations cancelled.
From a country blessed beyond the common
lot of nations, rich in her means, and proud in
the righteousness of her dispositions, does not
honor , justice and humanity , give the world a
right to expect that the hand of charity at least
should be opened to a friend, whom, without
his fault or free agency, and from causes so
notorious, incident has thrown into ini. ery
so profound as this unfortunate prince now
suffers ?
It ought not to be concealed from congress
also, that there are at Malta and elsewhere,
sundry foreigners, Frenchmen, Greeks „nd Ma
hometuns, whose wounds, received in the ser
vice ol the United States, in the province of
Deroe, render them incapable of acquiring a
subsistence, and to whose cases no provision
made by law can be extended.
Most respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM EATON.
November 3d, 1807.
PORTRAIT of AARON BURR.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
t( Who noble ends by noble means attains,
“that man is great indeed .”
Is such the greatness oftiie man who stands
before us ? Is such the character of the trans
actions, which have been lately unfolded to the
world l Let us analyse both his ends and his
means to see what pretensions they can give
him lo the character which the poet lias des
ctibed.
1 his trait uniformly marks his conduct and
designs — that he never is contented with a low
er seat, so long as he can aspire to the highest,
i he mines snd riches ol Mexico are tempting
objects ; but even the wealth and splendor oi
the Mexican empire, when viewed through the
long tract of water and wood which he would
have to pass, and the dangers which were to be
encountered, are lost and eclipsed in the supe
rior lustre of a throne, erected at Aew-Ui leans,
and stretching.its sceptre over the western
states. Erom every thing- which we can col
lect, as well from his own declarations when
he dared to unbosom himself, as the more un
guarded avowals of his less artful accomplices,
Aaron Butr must have had three objects in
view :
To separate the western from the eastern
states;
To invade Mexico; or N
To effect a temporary settlement on the
Ouachita.
The first was the foremost in his hopes and
first m the period oi its attempted accomplish
ment. The second was to turn into anew
course the very same means which he had col
lected, and the very passions which he should
have excited tor the attainment of the first.
And the last w as to have been at once the assy
him of his despairing ambition, and the germ
of new schemes, where it “ hush’d in grim re
pose expects its evening’s prey.”
l ake the principal points of the evidence as
they have been disclosed during this examina
tion, and see how they bear us out in these con
clusions.
The examination of general Eaton before the
court, and in the presence of the very man
whom ho arraigned at the bar, establishes the
truth of his deposition beyond the shadow of a
doubt. “ Let us wait to see Eaton confronted
with Aaron Burr,” was the former cry of Burr’s
friends. “ Let us see what Eaton will dare to
say before him. or whether Burr will dare to
contradict him.” Yet this important confron
tation is over, and what is the issue of it ! We
have seen general Eaton, standing in the very
front of Aaron Burr, and under the flashes of
that terrible eye, which, like Medusa’s head, was
to have turned him into stone : but we have
seen Eaton rising with the spirit of conscious
truth and re-echoing the same charges against
Aaron Burr, without hesitation, and without the
slightest alarm. We have seen Aaron Bun
writhing under the consciousness of his guilt,
and his bleached countenance betraying the
agitations ol his soul. \\ e have seen Ea'on
persecuted, by the cross-questions of legal in
genuity, but we have seen him turning upon
his assailants, and heating them down with the
consistency and truth 5f his story. After thi
wno can doubt, that liurr was just as discon
tented with his situation, and as sanguine and
aspiring as Eaton had represented him ; that
so long as he was doubtful of Eaton's disposi
tions for his purpose, he amused him wiih the
tale of the Mexican project ; but after havii g
thus felt the of his virtue, after having
thus attempted to ascertain, how far his temper
was lawless enough to acquiesce in this lawless
scheme of plunder, and believing at last that he
was unprincipled enough for his purposes, that
he then began to open to him his favorite and
grander scheme of aggrandizement. He talk
ed to him of dismembering the union, of the
ease with which he could seperate the western
from the eastern states, and the splendors of a
throne at Orleans. He did not reveal these
ideas as if they had just been hatched, or as if
they would be lightly relinquished. Far from
it. lie dwelt upon Ins means. He named in
dividuals whom he had selected for his purpos
es, and he was prepared to answer every objec
tion which could be made to their accomplish
ment. After this, who is there sceptic enough
to doubt, that this man was at heart a traitor ?
His interviews with Mr. Stoddert point to
the same conclusion, though with this mate
rial difference ; that while he manifested the
same discontented spirit, and the same con
tempt for the weakness of the administration
which he was afterwards forced to respect, and
the same idle confidence in his own means and
talents, he did not dare to assail Mr.
ear with the details of his plans. He did not
designate New-Oileans as the point where he
should make his attack : he did not name the
persons whom be Had chosen as his accomph
-1 cc-'i, ?.p<] Jr, seemed to disclose Ins ideas, not as
! il they v.ce such as he meant to execute, blit
. as those that might be successfully attempted
•by seme daring genius. The reason of this
■ distinction is obvious. He knew that Mr.
. biocidert was a man of too much virtue, and of
j too little means to become an accomplice. Ge
neral Eaton, on the contrary was young, lie
was bold, he had shown a military turn, and
his virtues had not yet been probed by Burr.
1 At Pittsburgh, while he was on his route to
die western country, and under the hospitable
i roof of the venerable George Morgan, he dis
plays the same bent of mind. In truth, where
cier he goes, he is destined, like the snail, to
leave bis slime behind him. It would seem
impossible for the mind of man, when serious
ly bent on any favorite idea, to prevent its
bursting forth in continued and indirect indica
tions. Burr’s mind was full of war, of arms,
of military achievement, and the disunion of
the states. And what were bis conversations,
and conduct ? They were precisely such as
might have been expected from this disposi
tion. He could not see a strong man without
Considering him as a soldier, and wishing that
he had a thousand such fellows. His conver
sation with the young Mr. Morgans, before he
reitched their fathet’s house, his conversations
at and alter dinner, breathe tiiis predominant
spirit. Ihe same plans haunt him at mid
night, and he descends at 11 at night, with die
caudle iu his hand, to the chamber of old Mr.
Morgan ; for what ? Mr. Morgan’s ardent vir
tue stopped his communications, and prevents
1 us from having the full benefit of the disclo
! su,c 1 hut there is every reason to belitve that
\ his intention was to make the father an instru
j nien't in the ruin of his son, and exact fiom him
j his consent that this noble-minded son should
! If 0 along with him in his “ nefarious” projects
ito the west. But why should we dwell upon
j such scenes as these ? The whole air oi bis
j conversations, at Morganza, and next morning
] at Washington, was such us was calculated to
draw down upon him the worst suspicions of
all the Morgans, and to induce them to give
the first information to government of his sus
picious designs. The complaisant Mr. Julian
Dupestre, may indeed deny all these things.
But what weight should be given to that
mans word, or vigilance of observation, wlu,
has to oppose the united testimony of the Mor
gan’s, or who upon'being asked, whether Ncw-
Voi k might not be taken with 500 men, could
complaisantly bow assent'?
Let us proceed another step in the investi
gation olthis evidence. The next point where
we are able to fix this wandering spirit is on
Blcnnerhasset’s island. Here it plays the
same part i at least if I may calculate the
cause by its consequences. Three days after
Burr leaves the island, Blennerhasset publishes
The Querist. Two circumstances at e here cal
culated to blend Mr. Burr with the guiil or fol
ly of these writings. Ist. That Blennerhasset,
the author, was the notorious accomplice of
Burr—and 2dly. that the sentiments and very
chain of arguments were so similar to those
which a witness had a short time before heard
from the lips of colonel Burr, that upon being
asked who he supposed to.be the author; he
very sagely replied, that Burr had furnLhed
the ideas, and that Blennerhasset had put them
into style.
These writings speak lor themselves. Na
man that reads The Querist, can mistake the
disposition or design with which they were
composed. \\ tilings w hich display to the
people beyond the Allegany, the imaginary
disadvantages of a union with the Atlantic states;
which attempts to shew them in how much
better condition they would he placed under a
government of their own; which persuade them
that it is not oniy a natural right, but a right
ingrafted upon the constitution to provide for
theii own distinct welfare—whoever can mistake
the temper of such writings as these from such,
men. and at such a time, might as well pretend
to doubt whether the Declaration of Indepen
dence or Common Sense were calculated to
promote the revolution of America. No man
can doubt them, and no one can pretend to doubt
bu s he who wrote them is ?.rt accomplice of Burr.